Without probable cause, some were handcuffed and/or placed face down on sidewalks. Others were publicly strip-searched. Imagine what's coming next time. Freedom in America's on the chopping block for elimination.

What's ongoing already includes:

numerous police state laws;

waging war on humanity;

indefinite detentions without evidence, charges or trials;

forced disappearances;

targeted assassinations;

torture and other forms of abuse;

Big Brother surveillance;

warrantless searches;

other privacy invasions;

false flag national security abuses;

war on terror fear-mongering;

military commission trials, including for US citizens;

domestic military force deployments;

secret FEMA concentration camps;

racial profiling and persecution;

militarized local police;

criminalizing whistleblowers; and

targeting non-believers for supporting right over wrong.

Tyranny isn't in the eye of the beholder. It's escalating in plane sight. It's just a matter of time until it's full-blown. Washington's bipartisan criminal class plans it.

It's dangerous living in America at the wrong time. Supporting right over wrong is threatened. Anyone can be targeted for any reason or none at all. Guilt by accusation is policy. Diktat authority has final say.

"To educate the public about the erosion of civil and political freedoms in the society, and the abuses of prisoners within the US criminal justice system especially after 9/11, and to advocate for the preservation of those freedoms and to defend those rights according to the US Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its related UN Conventions, and the Geneva Conventions."

Civil liberties are threatened, it warns. Public safety at the expense of freedom assures neither.

Doing so violates constitutional protections. First Amendment freedoms are compromised. They're fundamental. Without them, all others are at risk.

They include free speech, a free press, free thought, culture and intellectual inquiry, assembly, freedom to practice the religion of one's choice, and to petition government for redress of grievances.

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) "defend(s) the rule of law and rights and liberties challenged by overbroad national security and counter-terrorism policies."

It "support(s) an ideologically, ethnically, geographically, and generationally diverse grassroots movement to protect and restore these principles by encouraging widespread civic participation; educating people about the significance of our rights; and cultivating grassroots networks to convert concern, outrage, and fear into debate and action."

Its "Campaign for the Constitution" headlines: "Building a Movement. Restoring Rights. Reclaiming Our Constitution." At issue is restoring lost rights. Bipartisan complicity compromised them en route to eliminating them altogether.

Rule of law protections "withered under warrantless surveillance, rampant racial and religious profiling, and torture - and even human experimentation - with impunity."

Web site visits are tracked. Cell phones log our movements. Emails and social network communications are monitored and stored. Warrantless spying is policy.

"Things we once thought could only happen in far-away enemy states or distant dystopias are suddenly happening here in America" said ACLU.

Privacy laws haven't kept up with technology. War on terror priorities matter most.

Protecting civil liberties in the digital age requires "ensur(ing) that expressive, associational, and privacy rights are strengthened rather than compromised by new technology."

It's also about "protect(ing) these core democratic rights against intrusive corporate and government practices that rely on new technology to invade these rights."

They're being systematically destroyed. According to theCenter for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Washington "consistently (doesn't) recognize the protections afforded by the US Constitution and international law, and in doing so, it has failed in its responsibility to maintain a democratic society that is both open to, and accountable to, the people."

Government is shrouded in secrecy. Checks and balances no longer matter. Bill of Rights freedoms are fading. They're fundamental in democratic societies.

Money power runs America. It games the system. It does so destructively. Controlling money, credit and debt for private enrichment assures speculation, booms, busts, inflation, deflation, instability, crisis, recessions and depressions.

It assures transferring enormous amounts of wealth from ordinary people to corporate giants and super-rich elites already with too much.

Economies are strip-mined for profit. Communities are laid waste. Ordinary people are impoverished and left out. Vital needs go begging.

Money power in private hands and democracy can't co-exist. Complicit politicians betray the public trust. They do so for benefits they derive.

Social injustice defines official policy. Class war rages more than ever. America's on a fast track toward tyranny. Stopping it requires free, fair and open elections. It's also about returning money to public hands where it belongs.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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